Whole Connection

Many of you have been reading our blogs over this past year and we thank you for joining us in our exploration of many themes and areas of interest.  We have tried to engage with topics reflecting the current atmosphere of our society and broader world.  Our posts were written with the hope of providing helpful information during tough times, supporting the development of new skills while working with our own struggles, and sparking insights on certain situations. In 2019 we’re striving to provide more. First up is a commitment to create video content on our new YouTube channel. We hope to provide mini practices and instructional videos that may help our viewers build new skills. In addition, I will be writing each week on a variety of topics as well as inviting guest writers from both inside and outside the clinic to share their expertise. I believe that we can heal through our community connections, just like we do in groups, so sharing information, teaching new skills, ...

Does this sound familiar? It’s 9 p.m. and the kids are finally in bed, you’ve had a long day and are so stinkin’ tired. The orange, plastic pumpkin full of Halloween candy is sitting on the kitchen counter and it feels as if the candy is literally calling to you, “Eat me! I know you’re going to!” You tell yourself that you don’t ‘need’ any more candy and that you should just go to bed since you’re so tired or eat an apple if you want a snack. But another part of you says, “It’s been a long day. You deserve the candy.” One thing leads to another and before you know it you are elbow deep in the candy bowl. Guilt starts to creep up on you as you look at the empty wrappers left behind and once again you feel like a failure because you ate more calories or sugar than you were ‘supposed to.’ We are entering the season where “trigger” foods, candy, and sweets are everywhere! If you’re like the majority of the U.S. population, you feel a lot of stress about what and how m...